The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty

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 This recording is the property of the SMU Center for Presidential History and may only be used for research and teaching purposes. It cannot be copied or reproduced for profit. © 2019 Barbara Pierce Bush was one of the country's most popular and powerful figures, yet her full story has never been told. THE […]

Alien Chinese Railroad Workers and American National History

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 This recording is the property of the SMU Center for Presidential History and may only be used for research and teaching purposes. It cannot be copied or reproduced for profit. © 2019 Gordon H. Chang is a Professor of History and Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He has written extensively […]

The Last Card in the Deck: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq

Mack Ballroom (Umphrey Lee Center, SMU) 3300 Dyer St, Dallas, TX

This is the real story of how George W. Bush came to double-down on Iraq in the highest stakes gamble of his entire presidency. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly thirty senior officials, including President Bush himself. The Last Card offers an unprecedented look into the process by which President Bush overruled much of the military […]

Doing History Amidst History: An Army Historian’s Work to Document the War on Terror

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

 This recording is the property of the SMU Center for Presidential History and may only be used for research and teaching purposes. It cannot be copied or reproduced for profit. © 2019 A trained historian and career officer, in 2009-10, Lt. Col and Dr. Brian DeToy served as the Command Historian for the main […]

THIRD RAIL SERIES: Does the Middle East Still Matter?

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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

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 This recording is the property of the SMU Center for Presidential History and may only be used for research and teaching purposes. It cannot be copied or reproduced for profit. © 2019 By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change – what was happening, why it was […]

Chinese Exclusion and the Making of the Alien in America

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Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

 This recording is the property of the SMU Center for Presidential History and may only be used for research and teaching purposes. It cannot be copied or reproduced for profit. © 2019 Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years […]

Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk

Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

 This recording is the property of the SMU Center for Presidential History and may only be used for research and teaching purposes. It cannot be copied or reproduced for profit. © 2020 While the Woman's Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented […]